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The Chamber is the largest business representation organisation in the East Midlands. With a growing membership of more than 4,300 businesses, it represents the interests of businesses across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
Chamber leads the way in sustainability
East Midlands Chamber has urged the region’s businesses to go green and reap the benefits to their bottom line in a new campaign. The Sustainable East Midlands initiative
will highlight both the business case and regulatory requirements for companies that engage with the low-carbon agenda. It includes a new online information
It’s time to set sail on our green voyage
East Midlands Chamber has launched the Sustainable East Midlands campaign to support businesses of all shapes and sizes in engaging with the green agenda. Here, the Chamber explains why it’s doing this and why the time has come for organisations to look at how they can contribute – and benefit.
gained global momentum for its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, while calling for “accelerating sustainable solutions to all the world’s biggest challenges”, including climate change. Just six months later, Covid-
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19 had ripped through our lives, jobs and businesses. It has forced us to reassess how
n September 2019, the United Nations said 2020 signalled the beginning of a Decade of Action as it
‘If we don’t act fast, the
worst effects of climate change could be
irreversible’
we’d like to rebuild our economy and, if anything, the appetite for us to move towards a
greener future has only intensified since the coronavirus outbreak. This begins at our own doorstep, within the very organisations we own, run and work for. Sustainability is a topic that
is sometimes ignored – one that can be easy to flick past in pages like these or think it’s someone else’s responsibility to
take. But there’s a number of reasons why businesses – which account for 18% of the UK’s emissions – should
engage with an agenda that is becoming Autumn 2020 CHAMBERconnect 43
portal that will point firms to financial support available to them and a series of educational events, beginning with the East Midlands Energy Summit on 19 November. East Midlands Chamber Chief Executive
Scott Knowles (pictured) said: “This isn’t just about sustainability for the sake of being greener, as this translates into the bottom line of businesses through efficiency and resilience. Adopting greener credentials reduces running costs and helps to win new contracts and business.” The campaign follows research by the Chamber and University of Derby. A study within the Q1 2020 edition of the Chamber’s Quarterly Economic Survey found the proportion of businesses deriving turnover from low-carbon and pro- environmental goods and services has nearly doubled between 2015 and 2020 – growing from 16% to 31%. Just over a third (35%) of businesses said
they were integrating clean growth into their business plan, although four in 10 firms said they didn’t feel well-informed about available financial support. Dr Fred Paterson, associate professor at
the University of Derby and the Low Carbon Business Network lead at Derby Business School, said: “There’s growing evidence that companies putting environmental sustainability at the heart of their operations are more successful and more likely to survive over time than other firms.”
For more information, visit www.emc-
dnl.co.uk/sustainability
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